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The Need for Trauma-Responsive Drug Testing Protocols in Community Corrections
SESSION INFO
Monday, January 27, 2025
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Session Type: Workshop
Drug testing is often a mandatory condition of supervision. In most instances, the supervising officer visually observes while the client provides a urine specimen. Observing a urine collection is how it's always been done. Officers or techs collect the sample and inform the court of the result. Officers move on to other aspects of case management without considering the collection experience from the client’s point of view. This presentation will examine how demeaning the observed urine collection process can be and how the process has the potential to trigger or re-traumatize justice-involved individuals with sexual trauma histories. The presenter will discuss trauma-informed and trauma-responsive drug testing principles and practices. Attendees will engage in structured dialog about trauma and the obstacles that currently exist in observed drug testing; how the current collection process can negatively impact the officer/client relationship and impede rapport building; how observation can limit the client’s trust and ignite the fight, flight or freeze trauma response. The presenter will discuss two new, innovative approaches that will mitigate trauma during the drug testing process.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Phil Breitenbucher, EdD, MSW
Professor, California Baptist University
Philip Breitenbucher, EdD, MSW, is the former director of the National Family Treatment Court Technical Assistance and Training Program supported by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). Dr. Philip Breitenbucher currently serves as a professor of social work at California Baptist University. Additionally, Dr. Breitenbucher serves as a subject matter expert for the Opioid Affected Youth Initiative supported by the U.S. Department of Justice. He was formerly a Program Director with the National Center on Substance Use and Child Welfare, where he directed the Children Affected by Methamphetamine Program, authored numerous papers, and trained nationally on evidence-based practices for treatment courts. Dr. Breitenbucher received his Doctorate of Education in organizational change and administration from California Baptist University, his Master of Social Work from California State University, San Bernardino, his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from California Baptist University, and his certificate in addiction and recovery from Light University.
West Huddleston
VP of Business Development, SCRAM Systems
West Huddleston is the former CEO of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP) and Justice for Vets (2006 -2015) and former co-founder and Executive Director of the National Drug Court Institute (1998-2015). During his 20-year tenure at NADCP, Mr. Huddleston founded and published Painting the Current Picture: A National Report on Drug Courts and Other Problem-Solving Courts, the Drug Court Review, Adult Drug Court Best Practice Standards Volume 1, the Drug Court Judicial Benchbook, and 22 other monographs, policy briefs, and training guides. Mr. Huddleston's leadership, tactics, and the subsequent impact of NADCP as a "champion" organization in the Nation's Capital are a focus in the 2011 public management and change book series How Information Matters, Networks and Public Policy Innovation by Dr. Kathleen Hale at Auburn University/Georgetown University Press. Mr. Huddleston is a highly sought-after keynote speaker and author on behavioral change, trauma, and best practices in community corrections and treatment courts. Mr. Huddleston is a member of the Advisory Board of the Division on Addiction at Harvard Medical School and recent past Vice Chair of the foundation for catastrophically injured veterans, The Independence Fund.
Jerri Middleton, DSW
Professor , California Baptist University
Jerri Middleton, DSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Work for the state of California and in the state of Alabama and currently owns a private practice serving survivors of sexual violence for individual and group psychotherapy services. She graduated with her Bachelor in Social Work (BSW) from Texas Tech University, a Master in Social Work (MSW) from the University of Alabama, and completed a Doctorate in Social Work (DSW) from California Baptist University. Dr. Middleton has experience working in various settings in the field of social work, including a psychiatric and substance use hospital setting, child welfare, short-term treatment residential centers for children and teens, community social work for West Alabama, family services with Head Start/Early Head Start, and clinical social work at a college counseling center. Jerri Middleton is an Assistant Professor at California Baptist University in the social work division, teaching undergraduate and graduate programs. Her research focuses on creating trauma-informed and transdisciplinary spaces inside and outside the behavioral health field.
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